Springer sold to private equity firms Friday, 18 December 2009 3:29 pm
Posted by Dongmei in Uncategorized.Tags: Springer, STM publisher
add a comment
In the information industry, merging and acquisition is so common, normally I don’t track them and are not interested in them at all. But since Springer is the second largest STM (science, technology and medicine) publisher, I thought I’ll just post about it, I’m sure some would like to know about it 
.
The sale involves $146 million in case and the transfer of $3.22 billion of debt.
Best Sellers in Physics Friday, 18 December 2009 3:17 pm
Posted by Dongmei in physics.Tags: best sellers, physics
add a comment
From LJ Newswire:
April 2009 to date as identified by YBP Library Services
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6711456.html?nid=2673&source=title&rid=18060439
JACS beta & mobile access Wednesday, 12 August 2009 10:00 am
Posted by Dongmei in e-journals, mobile libraries.add a comment
American Chemical Society (ACS) has begun a major mobile-oriented initiative for its publications:
Mobile Table of Contents (TOC)
The goal of this beta project is to create the most useful and enjoyable mobile experience possible. Specifically, this project focuses on browsing Tables of Contents.
Mobile Article
The goal of this beta project is to create the most useful and enjoyable mobile experience possible. Specifically, this project focuses on formatting an article for viewing on a mobile device.
Supported Devices
All mobile devices with a web browser should be able to view both the Mobile TOC and the Mobile Article, but the full functionality of the Mobile TOC is limited to more modern mobile web browsers that have JavaScript turned on.
It started with JACS (Journal of the Amer Chem Soc) Beta.
[My thanks go to Gerry McKiernan’s Mobile Libraries blog post.]
Have you seen a moonbow before? Tuesday, 11 August 2009 2:06 pm
Posted by Dongmei in Internet Resources, astronomy.add a comment
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day for yesterday (8/10/09) captures a moonbow, several rainbows, the starry sky visible in 2009 February over Patagonia in Chile. I’ve never seen a moonbow before, have you?
Had stayed in Honolulu for almost 5 years before moved to mainland, I’ve seen plenty of rainbows (you’ll see a lot if you stay on the campus of the Univ of Hawai’i at Manoa). As you can see, moonbows are lit by the moon just as rainbows are lit by the sun. Both rainbows and moonbows are created by light being scattered inside small water droplets, typically from a nearby rainfall. It’s still fascinating to see it … even in a video.
remote access to SciFinder Tuesday, 16 June 2009 4:47 pm
Posted by Dongmei in chemistry, databases.Tags: remote access, SciFinder web version
1 comment so far
Last week one chem professor told me that he had trouble accessing the new SciFinder Web version remotely, and he indicated that this was not just him, a few others had the same problem. I thought I would go through the authentication process again, hoping that this will clear things up.
After you register for your username and password via SciFinder Registration, if you’re at home (or somewhere remotely), don’t just go to http://scifinder.cas.org, that will not work. You have to go to the link on the Library’s Database Page http://library.cofc.edu/search_collection/databases.php (and click on S) or go to the Chemistry LibGuide http://libguides.library.cofc.edu/chemistry (click on the tab: Find Articles), either way it will take you to this link SciFinder Web Version (http://nuncio.cofc.edu/login?url=https://scifinder.cas.org/scifinder). Alternatively, you can bookmark this link too.
What this link does is it will take you through the EZProxy Server, which authenticate you as a CofC affiliate (it will ask for your Cougar domain account, basically your cofc email before the @ sign, same password). After that, you use the SciFinder username and password that you registered to log into SciFinder.
It’s what I call a double authentication process, hopefully, ACS will eventually drop the username authentication, just use the EZProxy authentication like everybody else is doing.
Hopefully this clear things up for you all. If you still have trouble access it remotely, don’t hesitate to contact me (email remains the best way to contact me, or poke me in Facebook).
